In Shakespearean Issues, Richard Strier presents a set of linked thought-provoking essays that treat the political, social, and philosophical themes of Shakespeare’s plays through recursive and revisionary close reading, revisiting plays from different angles and often contravening prevailing views.
Objects of Intercultural Encounters and the Boundaries of Book History
Edited by Rhae Lynn Barnes and Glenda Goodman
Price: $74.95
ISBN: 9781512825770
Pub Date: August 2024
Format: Hardcover
456 Pages
American Contact explores the dynamics of intercultural encounters through the medium of material texts. Its forty-eight short chapters shed new light on the material practices of communicating power and resistance, subjection and survivance, in contact zones of America from millennia in the past to the 2000s.
Edited by Cristina Maria Cervone and Nicholas Watson
Price: $89.95
ISBN: 9780812253900
Pub Date: August 2022
Format: Hardcover
560 Pages
What Kind of a Thing Is a Middle English Lyric? considers issues pertaining to a corpus of several hundred short poems written in Middle English between the twelfth and early fifteenth centuries. The volume asks fundamental questions about what these poems are and how they might illuminate and be illuminated by contemporary lyric scholarship.
